Posted By Dan Greenfield on May 17, 2016 | 1 comment

This great idea comes from a reader.

Fans around the world have been mourning the death of Darwyn Cooke, one of this generation’s greatest artists and one whose influence will be felt for decades.

We’ve been running tributes for the last few days and Norman Burns, a reader from Perth, Australia, contacted me:

Hi Dan,

Here’s an idea… Maybe DC can do a memorial print with funds going to fight cancer. DC = Defeat Cancer.

Cheers,

Norman

Perth

If that’s not a magnificent suggestion, I don’t know what is.

So if this idea interests you, feel free to spread the word with the hashtag #DefeatCancer.

One thing: I do wish to note that if this doesn’t happen, DC is not a villain. There are always complicated issues at play that make a pie-in-the-sky idea unfeasible. But you never know, so it’s at least worth raising the idea, since it’s such a good one.

Anyway, here’s just one suggestion for the print:

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More coverage:

Darwyn Cooke, 1962-2016. Click here.

Darwyn Cooke Remembered: Comics Pros Pick Their Favorite Works. Click here.

13 Great Darwyn Cooke Covers. Click here.

13 Great Darwyn Cooke Illustrations. Click here.

Darwyn Cooke’s Eight Great Will Eisner Stories Every Fan Should Read. Click here.